OK, that's the puzzle. It's based on people commonly associated
with epithets.

I wrote the first draft of this puzzle and the folks on GC liked
it--except that they didn't know many of the "famous" people I came up
for the first draft. I was kinda expecting that--I didn't really
think that GAIVS IULIVS CAESAR OCTAVIANVS was a great hint for AVGVSTVS.

But I was sad to hear that "Big" Bill Haywood was obscure. I'd thought that
people would know that one. When I was
growing up, we learned about the early days of organized labor in the USA.
There are names
that stick in the head: Harry Bridges,
Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Joe Hill, and, yes,
Big Bill Haywood. I'm not sure why other folks haven't been taught
about these folks. Did I learn about them because the San Francisco
public schools were staffed by filthy hippies and foaming radicals?
Have we tried to forget these stories because we've seen how the labor unions
turned out?

Maybe it's because there's a stereotypical course to the story of
a labor leader of those days, and it's tragic. Organize people,
do good, find out that Stalin has transformed communism into
totalitarianism and... join Stalin anyhow or give up.

Maybe that's why I enjoyed All the Right Enemies, Dorothy
Gallagher's biography of Carlo Tresca. He was a labor leader.
But he didn't join the commies and he didn't give up.
When the bosses were oppressive, he rallied people against the
bosses. When the commies were oppressive, he took them on. The
mafia, sure why not. Here, the tragedy is that more leaders didn't
join him, sticking with "people's" movements that had been hijacked.

Eventually, someone shot Tresca. But it took a while and he had a
good run before it happened. And plenty of other people got shot who
did less good along the way.